Standard (EADGBE)

I had my stomach pumped two times my senior year

Which earned the approbation of all my plastered peers

(Band In)

Now I do my weekly bleeding at trendy AA meetings

I was a social monster, but now I serve my sponsor (w/Fill 1)

I choke out cliché confessions, I suck down coffee black

I chain smoke cigarettes between handfuls of Prozac

Man am I one sober stallion, I just got my first medallion

My higher power drug me, I’m letting strangers hug me (w/Fill 1)

Now I really crave a meeting, all those soothing empty greetings

The Big Book is omniscient and I’m not self-sufficient

Dependency’s still coursing through my blood, I’m only changing drugs

Self help study, twelve step program, which hollow slogan was it?

We found serenity and Day by Day or Easy does it ?

Plant that affirmation seed, our license plate should read

Ten thousand lakes and treatment centres,

Betty Ford’s our statewide mentor (w/ Fill 1)

They say the devils in the details of this cunning, baffling habit

I poured out all my Nyquil, I flushed my Sine-aid tablets

‘Don’t take others inventory,’ ‘Thanks for sharing your sick story

If I bluff I know they’ll call it, ‘I’m Stuart, I’m an alcoholic’ (w/Fill 1)

Dysfunction builds the strangest sages, quoting pointless daily phrases

The Big Book is omniscient, and I’m not self-sufficient

Dependency’s still coursing through my blood, I’m only changing drugs

(w/palm muting for the next 2 lines)

It’s a self-perpetuating business, you can’t cure a life-long sickness

Hazelden cleaned out my parents, but my stay was 14 carat

Inner peace is what we seek at fifteen hundred bucks a week

Treatment’s just a new psychosis, need and weakness through hypnosis

The Big Book is omniscient, and I’m not self-sufficient

Dependency’s still coursing through my blood, I’m only changing drugs

Outro – FEmin

Fill 1 (add between verses w/ad lib soloing)

D 0-2